All things Quote by John Stuart Blackie

“All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well.”

John Stuart Blackie

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Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.

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Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes, Cushioned on a dreamy pillow, Thou art now wise. Wake the power within thee slumbering, Trim…

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Creation is the production of order. What a simple, but, at the same time, comprehensive and pregnant principle is here! Plato could tell his…

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Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that's in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the task when reaping sweet labour's prize.

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All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God.

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Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.

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Brahma is the great Creator, Life a mystic drama; Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature Are but masks of Brahma.

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The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is…

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A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing.

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The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water

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Order is the law of all intelligible existence.

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Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto.

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There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,…

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What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of one's knowledge, and what is to be their end? What can be more deeply disheartening than to wonder whether one's soul is, perhaps, a material thing, like a stone or a reptile, corruptible like these base…

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It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become - of all things - Wall Street's own slogan.

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